Usually, the mining yield for Clam Coins, a proof of stake cryptocurrency, is high enough that I don’t use Poloniex to lend my clams, but over the past few days as the price of clam coins has been rising, the interest rate to lend/borrow clams has gone through the roof. At the time of writing, the lending/borrowing rate for clams on Poloniex is over 2% per day!
What are the reasons why the rate on clams is so high? Obviously there are far more users willing to borrow clams then are willing to lend them, the liquidity on clams is less than many other cryptos, and there are probably less clam users paying attention to the lending rates on Poloniex and so there is a lag of time between when the capital flows to Poloniex from the miners.
Generally, I’m bullish on the price of clam coins. For what its worth, they have recently broke out to the upside after trading in a tight range for several weeks on the Poloniex clam/btc market. Users who are interested in clams have a few ways to get in on this market, they can use Poloniex to exchange btc for clams, or they can bypass the exchange and use ShapeShift to send the clams to a miner like Just-Dice.
